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Blogs Liberty and Power Emmett Till Investigation (Continuing Doubts)

May 17, 2004

Emmett Till Investigation (Continuing Doubts)

by Liberty and Power

A story in today's Chicago Sun-Times by Debra Pickett quotes my views on the Emmett Till investigation . I address the question of whether it will produce any satisfactory results.

As we (David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito) said in our longer piece for HNN which describes our investigation of the case , we doubt that it will.